Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-18
ANDREW CAREEGIE'S FAITH.
triumphant Dem icracy Has Nothing 10
Fear from Socialism.
W.
New York Timts.

Gar SOSthbSA.
New York rImts.
The Nineteenth Century Club had q
symposium last night at the rooms of the
American Art Galleries. The theme was
Triumphant Democracy" and the first
speaker was Andrew Carnegie, who
looked upon cffsirs with an optimistic
eye; the second, Colonel Rush G. Haw-
kns, VINO spoke from c pessimisuc point
Wl view, and the third, Laurence
6ronlund, who talked from the very
bottom of the PIT Of pessimism and
uncLtsined socialism Tue rooms were
crowded with men and women Ia evening
dress, ard most GE the local leaders Of
Intellectual society who are in the clEb
Snd those who 6re out 0f 1t were preEuL.
President CCurtlandt Palmer, who is 8
social radical himself, introduced Mr..
Carnegie as one of the best types of
Triumphant Democracy" the empIoYe
Of l., 600 men, Yerit4ble captain OK in
dustrY, and benefcent user of
enormous wealth MIR. Carnegie
said great many good things.
Here are some of bis ideas:
"Ole tnat locks out on the world to-
day Will see mary things that be wishes
were otherwise. But let That man lOoB
back & little and consider Whist the mass
Of the people were but q century ago, and
nc will return to the present with roseate
hopes. You will Fad msny men, even in
America, who cannot see the giories of
the sun. They notice but the spots
They are the kind who would hnd that in
Paradise the hslos do not ft the
heads. book by q minister and rec
commended by Eeber Newton as
so sntidote to my Triumphant Democra-
CT declares there are .msDy perils beset-
ting this lsnd, but believe the evils 2re
not so tremendous as Represented. e.
ucStion has lifted Us up, and is strength
eGiIg Us TO meet present and new dan
gers. The Improvement of the condition
of the masses has 1een In exacs proper
ton 10 the political power vested in the
masses. Education is the root OF ali i'm
provement This book, '0ur County,
charges that immigration is 9 great peril
Now our only authority l. the census.
and the census shows that since the time
OF the Irish famine, when, in 1910,
immigration really began, there have been
but 10 coo, 900 foreigners landed on tnese
shores. Births now average 100000
year here, and the time is not fnr distant
when there will be as few foreign-oorD
don't get the scum here. You get the
ambitious, the sturdy, the honest. The
second dang, is alleged to be sectsIi.n
sn, and chi, fly the Roman Catholic
church But there is little to fear in
this matter. Catholic Italy refuses the
Pope temporal power, and We need not
fear that he can gain 1t here. A
bull Of the pope commanding 81 Ameri-
can to raise his hand sgainst his govern
rent has no more force than bull
against a comet. Mormonism Is held up
as another peril. II is ridiculous so TO
regard il. lntemperance il another. But
here the consumption of liquor is less
than in other civilized countries, and each
year sees it decreasing. Forty years ago
the young man who could drink without
getting drunk WAS praised by the womtn
Of society. Ii he did not drink, be was
regarded as q milk sop. 1t is different
now.
Socialism is an exotic. 1t did not
begin tere, but Ii may find its end here.
1t breeds under old forms OF government,
under loyslism under mon .rchies. La
The land of triumphant democracy IL
Withers and falls. Applause 1t re-
celved its first lesson at On csgo. Ii was
taught that this is the land az ballots, not
OF bullets. The message to it is this: |
We, the workiugmep, make our laws,
ana when we don't like them we change 1
them. II you want to live in this coun-
tfP You must he quiet Cit ms or quiet
coFpses. That you may understand this |
We Dave hanged few OF your fellows. |
and II you don't observe that intimation |
we will hang more of You.'"
Thens Mr.. Cs'n'gle said he loved 8 |
shining mark, and proceeded to quote
prom letter by the clubs president, |
Courtlandt Palmer, to 4 meeting OF
anarchists, In which Mr.. Palmer en-
coursged them and said thst the souls OF